Asking officials to strictly follow the guidelines of the Government of India on the second phase of lockdown, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that important sectors like construction and emergency medical services would start in state-run and private hospitals from April 20.
“Follow the Central guidelines. Conditional approval will be given to large construction works from April 20. Similarly, emergency medical services should start immediately,” Yogi told members of Team 11 in Lucknow on Wednesday.
The chief minister said that work should start on construction of expressways, state highways, housing societies, medical colleges and roads.
“Daily wagers will benefit from this conditional approval, but they will have to follow social distancing and other conditions suggested by the government,” he said.
Yogi instructed officials to start emergency medical services in the state and if needed, deploy MBBS final year students for this so that they could assist doctors.
The chief minister was informed that government agencies had set up 5,000 procurement centres across the state to buy crops from farmers and wheat purchase had already started at all the centres.
“Instructions have been given to follow social distancing in mandis. Farmers should not face any problem in bringing the produce to the mandis,” the chief minister said.
Yogi expressed concern about the future of students and directed officials to start online classes so that academic schedule did not suffer. “Heads of departments of Higher Education, Secondary Education, Vocational Education and Medical Education should promote online education in UP,” he said.
On this occasion, officials told the chief minister that the Higher Education department had prepared and uploaded over 31,000 e-contents that were being used by 2.29 lakh students. Besides, 75,925 online classes were being conducted by 55,046 faculty members and about 80,000 students were availing online education daily they added.
Similarly, Technical and Professional education too has started online education and 2,776 hours of e-content has been created and uploaded under technical education, while 9,000 teachers are offering their services which had benefited 2.06 lakh students. Similarly, in vocational education, five lakh students in 70 trades of ITI are taking advantage of education by joining e-platform.